Newt Lays the RNC Out
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Newt Gingrich is a very smart, very savvy man. He’s also taking out a strong position as a real conservative maverick inside the Republican party*.
Watch here as he smacks the Republican National Committee around for being a bunch of crusty prima donnas.
He is exactly right. The Republican Party still hasn’t figured out that centrally-controlled, top-down way of doing things will not bring it back. It will serve the folks at the top very well, though. That’s why this poorly-named venture will disappear in a couple weeks, after the initial media buzz about how Republican leaders are going on a “listening tour”.
The truth of the matter is politics these days is great business for the folks in power, no matter if they’re Republican or Democrat. So long as government is the gargantuan money-suck it’s been for most of my life, the people in power will not voluntarily give up the relatively easy money they tease out of the system.
Ask yourself how many members of the RNC have a net worth under a couple million bucks. If you get to one, I’d be very surprised. I guarantee you they didn’t make all that money by the sweat of their brows; a good chunk of it came, at least indirectly, because of the political influence they wield. I wonder what would happen if you asked ten random members of the committee how many times they paid for a meal out of their own pockets without expensing it to the party?
I’ll give you a better question to ask. If God suddenly gave the RNC the power to cut the size of the Federal government by 75 percent and send all that power back out to the state and local governments, how much time would it take for them to decide to do it?
Or would they do it at all?
*I’m not in love with him yet, though. Newt lost serious conservative points sitting on that couch alongside Nancy Pelosi and grinning like an idiot while pushing her global warming claptrap down our throats. he should know better than to side with someone as vacant and predatory as Pelosi no matter how much he thinks it brings him to the discussion table.
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He also loses serious points by lobbying against the Fannie/Freddy reform that the repub's were trying to push through back in '05. And the fact that he has managed to slither away from even being asked about it makes me mad.
Newt has committed a number of transgressions in his move away from the Republican Party and into Mavericktown. I think, though, that he's getting right – or right enough that he could be a worthwhile force for conservatism.